Bill Text: TX SB2152 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Relating to the amount of foreign emissions of air contaminants in nonattainment areas and the required revision of the state implementation plan to account for those emissions.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-03-22 - Referred to Natural Resources & Economic Development [SB2152 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SB2152-Introduced.html
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| By: Sparks | S.B. No. 2152 | |
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| relating to the amount of foreign emissions of air contaminants in | ||
| nonattainment areas and the required revision of the state | ||
| implementation plan to account for those emissions. | ||
| BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS: | ||
| SECTION 1. Subchapter B, Chapter 382, Health and Safety | ||
| Code, is amended by adding Section 382.0175 to read as follows: | ||
| Sec. 382.0175. AMOUNT OF FOREIGN EMISSIONS IN NONATTAINMENT | ||
| AREAS; REQUIRED REVISION OF STATE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. (a) In this | ||
| section, "foreign emissions" means emissions of air contaminants | ||
| emanating from outside this state. | ||
| (b) Not later than October 1, 2023, the commission shall | ||
| request from the administrator the amount of foreign emissions that | ||
| are detected or estimated to be at each federal air quality | ||
| monitoring site located in each nonattainment area in this state | ||
| with respect to each air contaminant for which the area is | ||
| designated as being in nonattainment for any national ambient air | ||
| quality standards. | ||
| (c) If the commission does not receive the information | ||
| requested under Subsection (b) within 180 days of the date of the | ||
| commission's request, the commission shall estimate the amount of | ||
| foreign emissions described by Subsection (b). The commission may | ||
| contract with a third party to conduct the estimate required by this | ||
| subsection. | ||
| (d) The commission shall, using the information received | ||
| from a request made under Subsection (b) or an estimate conducted | ||
| under Subsection (c), revise the state implementation plan to | ||
| account for the amount of foreign emissions in each nonattainment | ||
| area in this state in any manner permissible under federal law. | ||
| (e) This section expires September 1, 2027. | ||
| SECTION 2. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives | ||
| a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as | ||
| provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this | ||
| Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this | ||
| Act takes effect September 1, 2023. | ||
